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History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian

Drowsy Historian

History For Sleep delivers slow, calm, and slightly unsettling historical storytelling that makes dozing off educationally depressing. Brought to you by the Drowsy Historian, each episode is 1–2 hours of immersive bedtime history with just enough absurd detail to keep you listening — until you aren’t. Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorian As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying p

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01:38:44

Why You’d REGRET Living in Kowloon Walled City

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/10/26

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianStep inside the Kowloon Walled City — once the most densely populated place on Earth. In this immersive journey, you’ll experience life within its suffocating alleys, where families lived shoulder to shoulder in concrete boxes, pipes dripped endlessly overhead, and sunlight rarely reached the ground. From noodle stalls and unlicensed dentists to triad-controlled gambling dens, the Walled City was both chaotic and

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01:29:31

Why the Black Death Was WORSE Than You Think

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/10/25

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianThe Black Death is often remembered as a single medieval catastrophe — a four-year nightmare between 1347 and 1351 that killed a third of Europe. But the reality was worse. Faster, stranger, and longer-lasting than the legend, the plague reshaped entire generations.In this video, we’ll trace its journey from the Silk Road to the shores of Europe, explore its grotesque symptoms, uncover the staggering death toll,

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01:44:54

The HORRIFYING Fate of a Prisoner in a Khmer Rouge...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/10/24

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianIn the late 1970s, Cambodia was torn apart by the Khmer Rouge, a regime that promised “reeducation” but delivered only silence, starvation, and death. In this immersive story, you step into the life of a prisoner forced into a reeducation camp — herded from your village, stripped of identity, and reduced to a hollow shadow under endless labor, hunger, interrogation, and fear.More than 1.7 million Cambodians —

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01:31:09

Why You'd REGRET Being a Medieval Leech Collector

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/10/23

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight’s story takes you to the edges of medieval Europe, where survival meant offering your own body to the swamp. As a leech collector, you strip down and wade into stagnant water, letting the worms feed on you so physicians and barbers can peddle their so-called cures. The buzzing of flies, the burning of bites, the weight of buckets writhing with your own blood — this is work no one wanted, yet someone had to

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01:29:27

The HORRIFYING Fate of a Sokushinbutsu Monk...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/10/22

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight’s story takes us deep into the mountains of Japan, where silence and devotion could lead a monk down a path few would dare follow. This is the horrifying fate of a Sokushinbutsu monk — a man who renounced comfort, endured years of hunger and poison, and sealed himself within stone to seek eternity.What begins in serene meditation soon descends into pain, claustrophobia, and silence, as the body withers in

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01:53:41

What It Was REALLY Like to Sail with Columbus in 1492

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/10/21

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight’s voyage takes you back to 1492, when you step aboard the Santa María with Columbus and his crew. At first, the cheers of the crowd and the promise of gold, glory, and discovery fill you with pride. But as the days drag on, optimism fades into monotony, hunger, sickness, and fear. The food rots, the air stinks, storms tear the sails, and delirium grips the crew until every shadow on the horizon looks like

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01:29:08

The HORRIFYING Life of an Opium Addict in Victorian...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/10/20

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianStep into the fog of Victorian London, where one man’s ordinary life as a clerk unravels into shadows and smoke. What begins as a curious visit to Limehouse soon spirals into a relentless haze of addiction. Through damp alleys, silent dens, and the roar of a city that thrives on empire while erasing its forgotten poor, this story follows the slow collapse of a life consumed by opium. Factories clatter, carriages

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01:45:14

The HORRIFYING Reality of the Stanford Prison Experiment

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/10/19

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianWhat starts as $15 a day for easy money quickly descends into one of the most infamous psychological studies in history. In 1971, volunteers at Stanford University signed up for a simple experiment on “prison life.” Within days, the basement cells, the mirrored sunglasses, and the clang of bars turned role-play into cruelty, obedience, and collapse.This is the horrifying reality of the Stanford Prison

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01:44:00

The Strange Way Victorians Tried to Talk to the Dead

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/10/18

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, we step into the fog-shrouded streets of Victorian London — a city of mourning clothes, gaslight, and quiet desperation. You are an invited guest at a séance, drawn into a parlor heavy with lilies, candle smoke, and the trembling promise of contact with the dead. Around you sit the grieving, the skeptical, and the lonely — each waiting for a voice from the other side, each hoping to make sense of loss in

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01:52:33

The HORRIFYING Life of a Soldier in the Battle of the...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/10/17

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianThe Battle of the Bulge was meant to be the last gasp of the German army, a desperate strike through the frozen Ardennes in December 1944. But for the American soldiers caught in it, the battle became something else entirely: a descent into frost, hunger, and silence that would follow them long after the guns stopped firing.In this immersive story, we step into the boots of an ordinary soldier and witness the slow

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01:57:18

The ABSURD Lifestyles of Gilded Age Millionaires

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/10/16

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianStep into the absurd world of America’s Gilded Age, where fortunes built on railroads, oil, and steel were flaunted in the most spectacularly wasteful ways imaginable. From Newport “cottages” larger than Versailles to masquerade balls lit by thousands of gas flames, the wealthy turned every corner of life into a performance of extravagance. Pets wore diamond collars while immigrant families lived in overcrowded

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01:49:53

Why You’d REGRET Being a Mummy-Maker in Ancient Egypt

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/10/15

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianStep inside the suffocating world of an ancient Egyptian embalmer. This isn’t the golden glamour of pharaohs and tomb treasures—it’s the grim reality of scraping brains with bronze hooks, packing organs in jars, and wrapping corpses until faces vanish. While kings are promised eternity, the men who preserved them were condemned to anonymity, carrying resin smoke in their lungs and salt dust in their throats.In this

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01:50:43

The HORRIFYING Fate of the USS Indianapolis

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/10/14

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianOn a July night in 1945, the USS Indianapolis was struck by torpedoes and sank within minutes, leaving nearly 900 men adrift in the Pacific. For four harrowing days, survivors faced dehydration, hallucinations, shark attacks, and the crushing silence of the ocean. This is not a story of victory—it is a story of endurance, futility, and memory. Through the eyes of one sailor, you’ll relive the departure, the

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03:14:14

The ENTIRE History of England

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/10/13

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianFrom Stonehenge to Shakespeare, from plagues to parliaments, this is the entire history of England told in one sweeping story. You’ll see kings rise and fall, empires built and lost, and ordinary people enduring it all with grit and grim humor. This isn’t the sanitized version from textbooks — it’s a journey through chaos, reinvention, and the stubborn persistence of an island that refused to vanish.🛏️ Drowsy

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01:55:36

The HORRIFYING Life of a Prostitute in Renaissance...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/10/12

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianAmsterdam in the Renaissance was celebrated as a city of tolerance, wealth, and trade. But for women pushed into its brothels, tolerance meant little. In this story, you step into the life of a poor young woman drawn into the city’s sex trade—your days consumed by smoke-choked taverns, sailors’ fists, lice-ridden sheets, and the steady decline of a body treated as nothing more than a commodity. From the stink of

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01:31:15

The HORRIFYING Life of a Medieval Alcoholic

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/10/11

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight’s story takes you deep into the forgotten corners of the medieval world — not the merry vision of flagons raised in jolly taverns, but the far more common reality of lives drowned in cloudy ale. From the first bitter swallow forced on children as “safer than water,” to the trembling hands of dependency, to the final collapse in filth and silence, this is a descent without romance. The taverns are smoky, the

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01:30:19

The HORRIFYING Life of a Cowboy with Tuberculosis

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/10/10

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianThey told you the West was freedom. Wide horizons, clean air, a fresh start. What you found was dust thick enough to choke a horse, bunkhouses crawling with lice, wages too thin to buy a second pair of boots, and a cough that never let go. Consumption stalked cowboys as closely as the cattle they drove — turning young men hollow before their time, bleeding them dry in bunkhouses, on cattle trails, and beneath

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01:19:25

Why You Wouldn’t Last a Day as a Roman Plebeian

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/10/09

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianRome has always been remembered for its marble, its generals, its emperors — but not for the millions of ordinary people who actually lived there. Tonight’s story isn’t about triumphal arches or golden togas. It’s about what daily life was really like for a Roman plebeian: cramped insulae ready to collapse, endless hunger, noisy streets, sour wine, false promises of tribunes, and fires that erased entire families

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03:05:11

The ENTIRE Dark History of Opium

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/10/08

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianFor over 5,000 years, the poppy has promised peace, sleep, and relief. But behind the poetry lies one of history’s darkest cycles—medicine turned indulgence, indulgence turned dependency, and dependency turned ruin. From Sumerian clay tablets to the laudanum bottles of Victorian Britain, from the opium wars in China to the prescription pill epidemic of today, every age has believed it could control the

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01:42:55

The HORRIFYING Life of a Depression Era Boxer

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/10/07

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianStep into the smoke-filled basements and battered gyms of the Great Depression, where hunger drove young men into the ring not for glory, but for survival. Tonight’s story follows the brutal rise and collapse of a desperate fighter — from chipped kitchen tables and soup lines to sagging ropes and jeering crowds. Each punch is less about victory and more about scraping together enough coins to keep the lights on,

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